11. The first ones they turn on are the people who go out of their way to protect them.

I've met a few people like that in my lifetime.

For that kind of...dysfunction...to rise to the level of "political stance" is pretty disturbing. It's decades of hubris, entitlement and being enabled at almost every turn.

And while the Israeli government thinks they're getting something they want by getting their way for the moment, or lashing out, it does damage to Israel that no outsider or outside nation could ever do. It's the kind of thing you see from a drug-addicted narcissistic personality during an intervention, not the government of a nation.

How can you possibly fix that? How can you possibly normalize that situation?